So I'll give you my world, and you will either waste all my tools digging a trench and filling it with gravel that you will need to go and harvest, and while you are att it you will booby trap my base with some time delay tnt trap, or you will hack in the gravel and worldedit the path making my world no longer legit, and still put a TNT trap in my world. While you are doing this I will not be able to play my world as I'll need to wait for you to finish building the paths so I can redownload the world with paths. I don't think your little service will catch on.

Well he didn't say gravel, which strikes me as a silly choice of path material considering it is just begging Endermen to vandalize it. I go with cobblestone, stone brick, or sandstone depending on location and biome. It is aesthetic and endermen-proof.
Either case, I like building my own paths.

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In the real world, you stick your head in the dirt to hide from problems.
In Minecraft, you stick your head in the dirt to find problems.

So.. you'll just dig out a 2x[whatever] ditch, fill it with gravel and say you're done?

Weird.

@Hyperventilate

No. I build a 3 block wide path made of what you choose

So I'll give you my world, and you will either waste all my tools digging a trench and filling it with gravel that you will need to go and harvest, and while you are att it you will booby trap my base with some time delay tnt trap, or you will hack in the gravel and worldedit the path making my world no longer legit, and still put a TNT trap in my world. While you are doing this I will not be able to play my world as I'll need to wait for you to finish building the paths so I can redownload the world with paths. I don't think your little service will catch on.

@bobri

I am NOT a griefer first of all
Second of all, I put all of your items in a large chest, switch game mode to creative, build the path out of what you want it to be made out of, switch BACK to survival, put your items back in inventory, then last but not least, destroy the chest. And about the part where you can't play the world, you CAN, but the world with the paths won't have any new structures.

I typically have signs and torches leading from my house to points of interest, but I don't dig up the ground because the result is that I essentially trade whatever material I use in the path for dirt.

What I'd really like to do is build a rail system between the various islands that make up my world, but even with infinite resources the task would be a bear.

I typically have signs and torches leading from my house to points of interest, but I don't dig up the ground because the result is that I essentially trade whatever material I use in the path for dirt.

What I'd really like to do is build a rail system between the various islands that make up my world, but even with infinite resources the task would be a bear.

Faster, but doesn't feel as legit as a nice looking path
note that I said FEELS